"But in your hearts set apart Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect, keeping a clear conscience..." (1 Peter 3:15,16)

June 2013

"The bottom line? The defense of conjugal marriage matters now more than
ever. It won't be long before new challengers come. But whether they
succeed may depend on how vigorously the democratic debate is joined
that Justice Alito describes in his clear-eyed dissent."

"There is no mistaking the presence of unique challenges to belief in our
modern day world. Our secularist, privatized, consumerist worldview has
wielded a religion (indeed many religions) that has little or nothing
to do with life itself. Coupled with secularism’s privatizing of
religion from the public realm, consumerism’s pull creates a context
whereby the choice of belief is not only a personal matter, but a matter
entirely divorced from the history and communities that inform these
beliefs."

"If the state has the authority to eradicate the
heterosexual imperative, who says 'equality' must be the new immutable
foundation? Surely it is up to Parliament, which is omnipotent? And if
marriage may be
polyamorous, why not incestuous? If Parliament determines that the
gamete is no longer the foundation of definition and children no longer
the natural issue, there is no logical end to the varieties and
expressions of
the institution. If, a decade
hence, Parliament wants marriage to embrace consensual polyamory,
incest and
co-homeowners, there is nothing to stop it."